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Grow Your Own

Reel Number: 221285-05

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1945

Country: USA

Location:

TC Begins: 06:02:39

TC Ends: 06:17:31

Duration: 00:14:52

Grow Your Own U.S. Department of Agriculture 06:03:04 Mr. Smith lights pipe & looks outside: snowscape. Writing. 06:03:43 MCU Sharpening shovel w/ file & testing w/ finger, other tools rake, hoe, hose etc. Writing & Victory Garden Program shown. Mrs Smith laying out seed packets. Children play at digging in dirt 06:04:54 People working in many gardens in front of apartment houses. CU hand in soil tests soil for moisture. Throwing manure & turning over, raking. Woman & man laying out rows w/ string & stakes. Placing fertilizer & planting small seeds, too many, then just right. Planting bean seeds. 06:08:33 Man sleeping w/ rake under tree dreaming of time lapse seeds growing super-imposed. Mountain views & larger beans or ?? 06:09:54 Man transplanting (?) plants around stakes, watering in. Transplanting tomatoes & placing fertilizer. 06:12:18 Cabbage plants transplanted w/ tarpaper disc to keep out maggots. Woman in pedal pushers pushing cultivator. 06:13:02 Man loading sprayer for dusting & sprayer w/ insecticide. Woman hand watering to lightly. Narrator talks to each about how they do it. Man watering w/ irrigation along plants. Man & kids picking vegetables. 06:14:48 Gags: man walking out of hardware store w/ many garden tools over shoulder. Narrator gives do’s & don’ts of gardening. Too deep planting; overplanting seeds; injuring plants, etc. 06:16:29 Victory Gardens people working in many different ones. Weeding & gathering vegetables. Man in wheel chair working garden; smiling woman w/ cabbage. WWII; Gags: Oddities; How To; DYI; Food; Instructional Films; Leisure; Handicapped; Hobby;

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